Dec 22, 2023 Road to CRD 6 – ESG takes center stage in financial regulation By Elisabeth Schemmer Jan Struckmann Falko Glasow Initially proposed by the EU Commission in 2021, the EU Banking Package is now taking its final shape since the co-legislators have...
Dec 21, 2023 Facilitating and protecting sustainable investments: the G20 Compact with Africa By Carsten Wendler Alexandra van der Meulen Alexander Grimm Stephanie Mbonu +1 more... Show less On 20 November 2023, the 5th G20 Compact with Africa (CwA) and the 4th G20 Investment Summit took place in Berlin. The CwA was launched...
Dec 20, 2023 Human rights and supply chain compliance for the financial sector: Clarifications on human rights due diligence? By Marlen Vesper-Gräske Elisabeth Schemmer Falko Glasow Elizabeth Forster +1 more... Show less The EU institutions have reached a provisional compromise and are continuing final technical negotiations for the legislative text of the...
Dec 19, 2023 COP28: the transition moment? By Jake Reynolds Joe Amann Caroline Gregson Clara Menke +1 more... Show less UN Climate Conferences (COPs) grab world attention, with COP28 being no exception. In this blog, we set out its most significant outcomes...
Dec 19, 2023 Greenwashing investigations on the horizon: what to expect and how to prepare By Nicholas Schoch Johanna Möller An increasingly comprehensive web of disclosure obligations has been spun in the field of sustainability reporting in many jurisdictions....
Dec 12, 2023 First appeal court judgments in climate-related lawsuits against German car manufacturers By Stefanie Spancken-Monz Theresa Schumacher On 12 October 2023 and on 8 November 2023, the Courts of Appeal Munich and Stuttgart upheld the first instance courts’ rulings which had...
Dec 12, 2023 FCA consults on anti-greenwashing guidance By Simon Orton Sarah Robinson Luke FitzGerald Sonia Zheleznyakov +1 more... Show less On 28 November 2023, alongside a policy statement on Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and investment labels, the FCA...
Dec 07, 2023 Belgium’s ‘climate case’: the Belgian State, the Brussels Region and the Flemish Region ordered to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030 By Nathalie Colin Aurelie Devillers The Brussels Court of Appeal (the Court) has decided that the Belgian State, the Brussels Region, and the Flemish Region violated...
Dec 06, 2023 Highlights from the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights By Marlen Vesper-Gräske Elizabeth Forster This week, the 12th UN Forum on Business and Human Rights took place in Geneva, from 27-29 November 2023. Over 2,000 participants from...
Dec 04, 2023 On the road(map) to sustainable investing: The FCA’s final rules on sustainability disclosures and labelling By Elisabeth Overland Fran Kaehr The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its long-awaited Policy Statement on Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and...
Nov 30, 2023 Germany’s revision of the Energy Industry Act: a highway for hydrogen? By Philipp Reinecke, LL.M. Ulrich Scholz Mirko Masek Hendrik Wessling Marie von Armansperg +2 more... Show less Following Germany’s recent revision of the Energy Industry Act (Energiewirtschaftsgesetz – EnWG), the legislator significantly...
Nov 29, 2023 Too little, too late? Challenges to deploying CCUS at scale By Selina Pope As we continue to face a global climate crisis, there is an urgent need to decarbonise all sectors of the economy. Ambitious global...